Support for ArcZ in shapelib?

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at DMSOLUTIONS.CA
Wed Aug 18 09:32:09 EDT 2004


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
> I think this was already recently answered here on the list.  The short
> answer
> is that Shapelib supports ArcZ files just fine, and you can use them with
> MapServer through OGR.  However, the high efficiency version of shapelib
> that was integrated into MapServer some time ago does not included
> support for
> 3D or 4D shapefiles.  It could be implemented fairly easily if someone was
> sufficiently motivated (assume we just want to discard the Z or M values).
>

Actually, the M's are already supported. This was added quite a while
ago, sometimes around 3.6.


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